"In Weirdo #17, Crumb illustrated an 8-page story called "The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick," based on a 1978 undelivered speech Dick wrote called "How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later" and from passages in an out-of-print book called Philip K. Dick: The Last Testament. Crumb's story focuses on Dick's bizarre hallucinatory experience of March 1974, in which Dick went back in time to the era of the apostolic Christians. Dick spent the rest of his life trying to figure out what these visions meant."
"Hugh Laurie's Los Angeles." By Hugh Laurie, for London's Telegraph.
"Every year a ton of places come out with their 'best blogs of the year' list and you have to be there. Here’s the trick: Get on one of those lists and you will get on all of those lists. Why? No one knows. But it’s very nice to be able to talk about over dinner when your grandmother asks how your 'globbing' is going and asks when you plan on getting a real job. Aside from this, those lists are very encouraging but don’t actually do much. This year I’ve been on Time, Forbes and People and none of them have given me as much blog traffic as I’ve gotten from being on the sidebar of a blog that gets updated once a year. True story."
"Names and Faces: The Portraits of Julia Margaret Cameron." By Anthony Lane of The New Yorker.
"Mercedes Kills Young Hitler in Viral Video." As Paula Bernstein points out at IndieWire, this "was a film student thesis at the Film Academy in Ludwigsburg, Germany [and] contains the disclaimer, 'This spot is a film school’s submission. There exists no current or past affiliation to Mercedes-Benz or to Daimler AG.'" A YouTube commenter calls the fake ad "as sick as Adolf himself."